Vancouver's Infamous Knife-Wielding Crow Is Now A Father

Canuck the Crow welcomed new babies to his East Vancouver nest this week.

Facebook/Canuck and ICanuck the Crow, Vancouver's most famous corvid, pictured shortly after his new babies hatched.

Just in time for Father’s Day, Canada’s most notorious crow has welcomed some new family members.

Canuck, his partner Cassiar and their new baby birds live in East Vancouver. Shawn Bergman, who runs social media for Canuck under the name “Canuck and I,” said in 2015 that his landlord’s son helped rehabilitate the black bird when he fell from a nest.

“He and I became friends on the day he was released, when we met,” Bergman told HuffPost. “He hopped up on my arm and we’ve been friends ever since.”

Canuck made international headlines in 2016 for allegedly stealing a knife from a crime scene. Witnesses reported the bird — who has a distinctive red tag on one foot — picked up the knife dropped by a suspect and flew off with it.

“I would really, really like it if he would bring them to introduce them to me,” he told HuffPost. “But we’ll see what the parents decide.”

This is basically akin to a royal birth if Prince Harry was a knife-stealing crow. Whether the chicks will follow in their father’s knife-stealing footsteps (wing flaps?) remains to be seen. But for now, congratulations to the happy couple!